How to use Porkbun email when your DNS is hosted elsewhere

If your web site is hosted with a company that required you to assign their nameservers to your domain, you may be wondering if you can still utilize Porkbun's hosted email and email forwarding services. The answer is yes, provided your web host allows you to make custom DNS entries. Here's how to add the requisite records at a 3rd party host:

1

Determine if your web host allows you to make custom DNS entries, specifically MX records. In many cases you can. A good way to determine how is to search the knowledge base of your hosting company or contact their support department to determine how to add DNS records.

2

Log into your web host and following the instructions, add two DNS records:

Type

Host

Value (Answer)

Priority

MX

leave blank, or @ depending on the company

fwd1.porkbun.com

1

MX

leave blank, or @ depending on the company

fwd2.porkbun.com

1

Be sure to remove any existing MX records other than the above so that only Porkbun's MX records show for your domain. It may take up to 48 hours for your new MX records to to fully propagate across the Internet, although in most cases the change should be immediate.